A second Trump assassination attempt feels almost normal. That's not OK

Nine weeks after Republican candidate Donald J Trump was almost killed at a rally in Pennsylvania, the FBI is investigating another attempt on his life. Trump was on his golf course in Florida on Sunday afternoon when Secret Service officers spotted a man with an AK-47 hiding in the bushes a few h…

Australian soldiers stripped of medals over suspected war crimes

It's arguably the most shameful stain on Australia's military. In 2020, an inquiry concluded that there was credible information implicating 25 special forces personnel in alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Four years on, the finding is still reverberating.  Last week, Defence Minister Richard Ma…

Inside Politics: Social media 'crackdown'

Snapchat is officially on notice. As are Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.  This week the Prime Minister and his communications minister Michelle Rowland announced they will introduce a ban on young people using social media. But they were short on detail, including exactly what age the government w…

Trump v Harris: One took the bait — the other won the debate

It was one of the most highly anticipated debates in modern politics: a verbal showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Because for millions of Americans, the stakes couldn’t be higher. For many, a Trump win will stoke fears of a more autocratic United States. And for countless others, a …

The tiny town with a big problem

Deep in the snowy mountains is a tiny town called Nimmitabel. It’s almost smack bang in the middle of Sydney and Melbourne,it’s got a school, a pub, a couple of churches – enough for a few hundred people. It’s the sort of place you move to start a fresh chapter of life, to feel part of a community…

Kate McClymont and the colourful world of George Alex

In terms of bizarre court cases, investigative journalist Kate McClymont has covered a few. But this most recent one, which ended in the conviction of colourful construction boss George Alex, was right up there. There was a soapie star turned doctor, who gave evidence that jail was a “terrible id…

Nick McKenzie on what John Setka did next

Australia's major union for construction workers, the CFMEU, has long been known as hardline in the way it went about its business. But a couple of months ago, investigative journalist Nick McKenzie's stories revealed damaging accusations that the union, which regularly overseas government funded …

Inside Politics: The Treasurer v The Reserve Bank

This week’s National Accounts figures showed that GDP growth was the weakest annual figure since the 1990s recession, not counting the pandemic.  Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the soft growth reflected the “impacts of global economic uncertainty, higher interest rates and persistent but moderating i…

Israeli hostages: Is this the tipping point for ceasefire?

Mass protests erupted in Israel over the weekend - in one of the biggest displays of wartime dissent in Israel’s history - after the bodies of six Israeli hostages were found in a tunnel in Gaza. The Israeli Defense Forces said the hostages had been murdered by Hamas, only a short while before Isr…

Why has the weather gone crazy?

What is going on with the crazy weather right now? In some parts of the country, the temperature is icy, while in others the heat is breaking records. Then there’s the wind; so fierce, it’s killed one woman, hospitalised another, and left tens of thousands of people without power. Today, environm…